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Best install using standard system package manager, such as apt-get, yum, or macports. | Best install using standard system package manager, such as apt-get, yum, or macports. | ||
==Download== | ==Download== | ||
| − | Downloading GDAL is very confusing. Web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects. Documentation is nowhere to be found. The sofware | + | Downloading GDAL is very confusing. Web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects. Documentation is nowhere to be found. The sofware installs without man pages. Typing gdal utilities from the command line with -help does produces nothing useful. But following works: |
* Download the appropriate version of sources from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/ as tar.gz file | * Download the appropriate version of sources from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/ as tar.gz file | ||
* expand the file | * expand the file | ||
* install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source | * install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source | ||
* open file html/index.html | * open file html/index.html | ||
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==Documentation== | ==Documentation== | ||
* Some apparently legacy documentation is at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki which also leads to another download page that looks legacy but is actually current.\ | * Some apparently legacy documentation is at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki which also leads to another download page that looks legacy but is actually current.\ | ||
* The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html here]. | * The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html here]. | ||
Revision as of 18:51, 25 May 2019
Installation
Best install using standard system package manager, such as apt-get, yum, or macports.
Download
Downloading GDAL is very confusing. Web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects. Documentation is nowhere to be found. The sofware installs without man pages. Typing gdal utilities from the command line with -help does produces nothing useful. But following works:
- Download the appropriate version of sources from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/ as tar.gz file
- expand the file
- install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source
- open file html/index.html
Documentation
- Some apparently legacy documentation is at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki which also leads to another download page that looks legacy but is actually current.\
- The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above here.